Ensisheim (Alsace, France)

Ensisheim, a town (pop. 3,212 in 1950) in Upper Alsace, Gebwiller district, was in the 16th century the seat of the Austrian government in Alsace, which ruthlessly stamped out the Anabaptist movement. Six hundred Anabaptists are said (by Sebastian Franck) to have been executed here.

Eberhard Hofmann, the city clerk of Ensisheim, participated in the trial of Michael Sattler in Rottenburg, Württemberg, Germany, and with his venomously hostile attitude contributed to the injustice of the trial.